Ivy League Conservatives

If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!From Instapundit: 
“Gordon Brown and his fellow world leaders have sparked outrage after it was disclosed they enjoyed a six-course lunch followed by an eight-course dinner at the G8 summit where the global food crisis tops the agenda. [...]

A rural town in southern India is paying its patrons for, well, using its public facilities. In Musiri, the public urinals are ecological sanitation facilities, and individuals are paid nearly a dollar per visit to use them. A local agricultural university is in the process of taking samples from the ecosan urinals and testing their [...]

Between Canada and Britain, my head is positively spinning. First, Britain’s government-funded National Children’s Bureau is warning playground attendants and nursery teachers to be wary of and punish children displaying signs of racism–for offenses as extreme as a three-year old not liking the smell or taste of unfamiliar foreign food.
News flash, Brits: Kids’ palates are unrefined. [...]

First tomatoes, now jalapenos. Rather than point fingers at each other or at the government, let’s point them at the people we import food from. Why don’t we just quit buying the majority of our produce from abroad, eat our own produce, and import only what we have to? 

First we had the kaffiyeh. And now… couture?

Islamic Red Carpet Fashion - World’s Most Expensive Abaya Costs $350,000 (GALLERY)

(TREND HUNTER) The Abaya, a traditional Islamic outfit for females, gets the “world’s most expesnive” treatment on the hands of British designer Bruce Oldfield, a favorite of the late Princess Diana.
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Dutch prosecutors will not pursue charges against Geert Wilders for Fitna… but Jordan’s charges are still pending.
 
 

In 2003, Rebecca Mae Haliday was imprisoned after being convicted of the manslaughter of her 18-month old daughter. To teach her toddler that “bedtime meant bedtime,” Haliday and her then-boyfriend hog-tied the child with bedsheets for weeks until, one evening, the child died of asphyxiation and pneumonia in the couple’s caravan home. 
Now a free woman, [...]

Food training, that is. They’re learning to eat without chopsticks so as to ease the transition once they get to China. Reuters:
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese athletes have begun a spartan, chopstick-free Chinese food training program to help them acclimatize for this year’s BeijingOlympics.
Japan’s National Training Centre will offer basic Chinese dishes such as noodles, cold [...]

The result of that judgment will help determine the subsequent judgment of your parenting skills. “What is this, a totalitarian state?” you ask. Nope. Just the cheeky Brits trying to one-up obesity.

This is insanity. Fox News:
Call it marriage, Islamic style.
Saudi marriage officiant Dr. Ahmad al-Mu’bi told Lebanese television viewers last week that it’s permissible for girls as young as 1 to marry — as long as sex is postponed.
Al-Mu’bi’s remarkable comments also included an explanation that “there is no minimal age for entering marriage.”
“You can have a [...]

Fox News:
An Australian bridegroom was horrified to learn after he had walked down the aisle that he was already married — after a drunken holiday romance he could barely remember.
The husband has had to confess in the Family Court that he spent 28 days partying and drinking in Arizona in 1978 on leave from his [...]

Nothing new, but still irritating. Fox News:
Authorities in a northern Malaysian city are calling on Muslim women not to wear bright lipstick and noisy high-heel shoes if they want to follow the “Islamic way,” an official said Tuesday.
The municipal council in Kota Baru, run by a conservative Islamic party, is distributing pamphlets that recommend women refrain [...]

Well, in so many words. You know, I don’t think what he said is so bad. We’re such politically incorrect nitwits these days that anything that isn’t glowing praise is often construed as racism. One should be proud of the country in which they live. If things are really as terrible as people complain that [...]

As always, a well-researched and insightful look into this epidemic.

Now they can’t say fatwa or shariah. And they can’t judge or discuss religion! Who is running this circus, anyway?